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A full-page advertisement on 13 October in the US Wall Street Journal (WSJ) looked like a ‘Wanted Poster’ from The Old West. These old-time ‘Wanted Dead Or Alive’ posters were used to locate gunslingers, stage-coach bandits, railway strong-box dacoits, serial killers, cold-blooded murderers, all quintessential outlaws, often with lucrative bounties on their heads. To use one such format to accuse 11 Indian government functionaries doing their jobs over a fairly mundane business dispute that they inherited from an earlier dispensation, that too in terms of the perfectly serious Global Magnitsky Act 2016, is patently absurd. The WSJ, a more-or-less reputable...
